On: Ask HN: Should foreign language education include warnings about their use?

[curious_curios]

Languages are primarily used to communicate, not discourage communication. They are also not usually unique to a single country.

People will find all sorts of reasons to create in and out groups, but I can’t imagine a country setting a policy of limiting learning of their official language. To protect their culture they’d want it learned so it doesn’t get supplanted by another external language.

[amichail → curious_curios]

If protecting culture wasn't a major issue, then we would have ended up with one universal language by now.

[curious_curios → amichail]

That’s a pretty big leap in logic.

Languages evolve and are in constant flux as words come and go and their meanings change.

It’s the same reason that we haven’t all evolved to a single universal organism.

[amichail → curious_curios]

You can have a universal language that involves over time.